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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:32:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
To:        Will Froning <wfroning@uop.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Xeons and Max # of CPUs supported
Message-ID:  <20021114123031.R4282-100000@daemon.velosystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021114082213.1842005f.wfroning@uop.edu>

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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Will Froning wrote:

> I have a dual Xeon box with 4.7-stable installed (new 2.8GHz Xeons that
> is). When I compiled in SMP it only came up recognizing 2 CPUs instead
> of the 4 I was hoping for.
>
> Does FreeBSD not support the Hyper-Threading or is it that FreeBSD only
> supports 2 procs?  And if it does support Hyper-Threading, is the second
> CPU recognized as the hardware CPU or the Hyper-Threaded one?
>
> Thanks,
> Will
>
> P.S. please cc me on the reply.
>
> --
> Will Froning
> Unix Sys. Admin.
> (209)649-0098
> wfroning@uop.edu
>
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FreeBSD does not support hyperthreading and likely won't until Intel
coughs up some documentation. Dmesg will report the physical processors
only.
Yes, I do have dual Xeons also.


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